Google Labs: useful features for physicians and scientists May 20, 2007
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Google, Invention, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science.trackback
Special features I like and use frequently in Google:
- Timeline View (an example for medicine)
- Maps of conferences (bioinformatics conferences in the US
- Web history: I always lose some of my links and searches, so it’s incredibly helpful.
- Google Alert: I get an e-mail everytime a new genetic blog is created somewhere around the world. We have to be up-to-date on our field.
- Google Scholar: it’s far not as good as PubMed, but definitely different (it sorts the articles differently: how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature)
- Google Suggest: I use it in case the original searches are useless as it will offer suggestions to search better.
Check out Google Labs for more!
Google scholar also lets you follow what papers have cited a particular article, and indexes more than just abstracts and titles (so papers that use the searched for terms/words in the body of the text, but not in the title or abstract, will be returned in the search results).
Honestly? A wonderous selection of tools that is (the group, I mean) un-informed by a pressing need.
Disconnected from the nuts&bolts, the hammer&tongs, even a fabulously clever project cannot be wise … because it’s not in-spired by the existential.
Me? I’ve been honing in on a single aspect for 32 years … “participatory deliberation” … and I’ve cracked it like an egg. Alexander used his sword on the Gordian knot, and showed himself to be a brilliant problem-solver (he thought “out of the box”), if somewhat brutal. I’m quintessentially Canadian … just kept beavering away til it fell apart!
p.s. I missed a beat: that first sentence should read, “A wonderous selection of tools that is (the group, I mean) not in-formed by a pressing need.”